It messes up my pages and it’s giving me headaches.
Images won’t load, and text is backwards?
Lame, just lame. I’m not even going to bother with this anymore, and the sad
thing is lots of people still use this piece of garbage, and the
only reason why I’m using it right now is to check the compatibility of my
website. Well forget that.

Hopefully the day will come when internet explorer shit browser disappears and Firefox prevails. Internet Explorer sucks so much, we won’t stop this internet explorer sucks campaign.

Date: 23 April 2009
Time: 10:44

For the past 15 mins I’ve been sitting in front of my PC starring at the image u can see above.

Refresh / Load / Reload  / close and reopen – nothing is working seems to work!!!  Everytime it’s the same crap!

I was logging into IEsucks just for time pass but now can u imagine: u have an important work to do, a research to make, a mail to send and all u get is craps like above???

The page can’t load in IE but when u try with other browsers it loads without any difficulty. It remains a fact that most organizations or even individuals still use IE but then why don’t they improve the browser.. or if they can’t then WIPE IT OUT.

IE sucks sucks sucks!
IE is DUMB!
IE is ROTTEN!
IE is SHIT!

Posted by
Mandish
Mauritius

To be true am not an expert like some of those who have posted on this blog.  Most of the words are too technical for me (like an alien language LOL).  But one thing is clear and even a common user like me will understand this: IE SUCKS, it’s dumb and not at all user friendly as they are trying to make us believe.

Below are two screenshots of error windows that I frequently came across while using IE

Here if you do the mistake of clicking on Cancel it closes all the IE pages you have opened (all your efforts are gone in few seconds only).  So many times I’ve nearly broken my PC because of this and have had to restart my searches afresh!!! A real PAIN!!!

Whenever I saw these I thought “Gosh my PC is getting old!!! I must change and take a brand new one with latest technologies and facilities.  (I know some of you must be laughing at me but well I just really didn’t know that my poor PC is not to be blamed) and then I would often come across these at work also (hey i’ve got a brand new PC there!!!!) so  the truth is that INTERNET EXPLORER has become OLD, PERISHED, STALE!!!!  and must be removed (I would say banned!!!!)

This is how I started looking on the net and try to understand this “PHENOMENON”.  Many persons have expressed their dissatisfaction with IE but so far nothing has been done to either improve or to ERADICATE it (which seems more appropriate to me).

So my message to all the BIG BRAINS out there is “IF YOU’VE GOT ANY BRAIN LEFT PLS PLS PLS PITY US AND WIPE OUT IE FROM THE NET AND SAVE US THE MANY TROUBLES THAT WE ARE FACING!!!!!!!!!!!” IE is the worst (or rather “worstest”!!! If only this word existed LOL) browser ever developed and for common users like us it is a real headache, a pain in the a**! IE sucks and its FINAL!

Posted by
Tifanie
New Zealand

Why We “Dislike” IE and why we say IE sucks?

The biggest problem with IE and maybe with Microsoft as well is that they would rather set some sort of standard even though the rest of the World is using another one that is working very well. In IE this is very apparent and when you design a website, 99% of the time, it will not display the same as any other one of the famous browsers out there such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari and funnily enough its replacement IE 7 and IE 8 (get that for a joke).

So now when you design a site you have to split it into 3 phases.
1. The initial design phase
2. The “See if it works in IE” phase
3. Then lastly the “Fix all the IE issues” phase

IE has been found to be the browser that sucks all over the web because of many complaints about its compatibility with web standards and many many other trouble while using internet explorer. IE is violating web standards and now we want it DEAD.

The IE sucks campaign is all about showing the world the troubles of using the web browser IE. There are currently many browsers with cool features. IE renders web sites badly and inconsistently.

Please support the IE sucks campaign and help make the internet a better place by killing the Internet Explorer Browser!

• 100% CPU usage;
• accelerators staying active long after I had closed IE;
• Windows XP crashing;
• Settings overwritten – not just the settings I had in RC1, but ClearType, task bar and quick launch were all reset to Microsoft’s default;
• Interference with my Logitech mouse;
• Refusing access to my PC’s localhost, and not keeping the settings for it, so making local testing impossible.

As of last Friday, web reports stated that IE8 only accounted for about one and a half per cent of all internet traffic. Here’s are some of the gripes users have with the new Microsoft browser.

Compatibility issues

Internet Explorer 8 suffers from compatibility problems with Web standards such as CSS, HTML4 and XHTML, according to the results of The Web Standards Project’s Acid Test 3.

The Acid 3 test for compatibility ensures that the browser works well with technologies such as CSS, HTML4 and XHTML. However, the test reveals that IE8 falls far short of scores delivered by other new browser software from Google and Mozilla.

This failure could especially be a huge stumbling block for developers as they rely on these standards to make sure their work can run across many different browsers and on different OSes.

Microsoft had earlier warned that IE8’s default support for some new Internet standards may cause problems with their sites. Explorer 8 includes a tool called Compatibility View that lets users view sites built for previous editions of the browser.

Still slow

Microsoft Corp is boasting about the performance speed of the IE8, but the new browser remains the slowest of the top five on the market.

According to JavaScript rendering tests run by Computerworld, the final version of IE8 is only slightly faster than the browser’s Release Candidate 1, which Microsoft released in January.

According to the test findings (which appeared in Computerworld) Google Inc’s Chrome led all browsers in the SunSpider tests, making it more than four times faster than IE8. Second was Mozilla Corp’s Firefox 3.0.7, followed by Apple Inc’s Safari 3.2.2 for Windows and Opera Software’s Opera 9.63.

Firefox proved to be 59 per cent faster than IE8, while Safari was 47 per cent faster. Opera, the slowest non-Microsoft production browser, was still 38 per cent faster than IE8.

Walt Mossberg, the personal-technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, criticised IE 8’s performance in an All Things Digital post, “Microsoft claims IE 8 is very fast, but in my tests, speed and performance were its worst attributes. Using two computers, one running Windows XP and one running Windows Vista, I timed the loading of a half-dozen popular Web sites, plus two folders containing numerous news and sports sites. I repeated the test in IE 8, and in Firefox, Safari 4, and Chrome. In every case, IE 8 loaded the pages and folders more slowly than most of the other browsers, and in most cases, it came in dead last.”

Incidentally, Microsoft said that its own speed tests prove Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to be faster than both Firefox and Chrome.

Hacked!

IE8 beefs up protection against malware and known phishing scam sites. However, the new browser suffered its first hack just days after its official launch (along with Safari and Firefox browsers).

At a security conference last week in Canada, a hacker exploited a security hole in Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8 in under two hours, taking control of a Sony laptop running an internal build of Windows 7.

The 25-year-old German researcher won $5,000 and a Sony laptop in the annual contest PWN2OWN that invites hackers to worm their way into popular browsers and operating systems for prize money.

Later, Microsoft confirmed for TippingPoint’s Digital Vaccine Laboratories that the IE8 vulnerability was genuine. It is still unknown whether the vulnerability exists only on Windows 7.

No final support for Windows 7

Microsoft is currently not offering the final version of Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. For those using Windows 7 Beta will have to stick with IE8 Release Candidate 1 for now.

Microsoft has not confirmed when the final version of IE8 will be available for Windows 7, but it is expected in the next public release for Windows 7.

Also, IE8 can only be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/ie8 or Microsoft’s Download Center. Microsoft has not specified when it will push IE8 through the Windows Update service.

Clickjacking good, but not enough!

According to Microsoft, IE 8 helps web designers prevent “clickjacking,” where a Web surfer might think they’re clicking on a legitimate button when in fact they’re activating an invisible, malicious action.

However, many experts believe that Microsoft’s latest technology to protect Internet Explorer users from clickjacking will not fix the problem. According to them, it won’t be a panacea cure-all, but it may help. Researches believe that the problem is so vast that Microsoft’s approach, which works only when developers add special tags to their pages that prevent their own Web buttons from being misused, may end up giving IE users a false sense of security.

Microsoft released the technology as part of an early test version of its Internet Explorer 8 browser, saying that the company had developed “consumer-ready” protection for an attack.

Clickjacking enables an attacker to force a user click on an invisible link, obviously without his knowledge or consent. Once a user clicks the link unknowingly, the hacker takes over the control.